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Trouble between retailers and the Guild, with its 250 dress manufacturers and affiliates in the textile and coat & suit trades, has been developing for months. It came to a head recently in a series of incidents which retailers considered a highhanded abuse of the Guild's position. One day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dress War | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Japanese may place Mr. Henry Pu Yi on the Throne of Manchuria, if the Japanese succeed in inducing Manchuria to secede from China. But the Japanese Government will have no official part in doings so highhanded. In Tokyo last week a Government spokesman told Japanese reporters that Imperial Henry is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gold-Digging Justified | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Just why it is necessary to settle a question of this sort by Congressional legislation, which must unavoidably appear somewhat highhanded, instead of by treaty, is hard to see. As it stands now, the amendment accomplishes little but an official enactment of the well known "Gentlemen's Agreement", and it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "--BUT THE PATIENT DIED" | 4/23/1924 | See Source »

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